In choosing a baseline methodology for an afforestation or reforestation project activity under the CDM, project participants shall select from among the following approaches the one deemed most appropriate for the project activity, taking into account any guidance by the Executive Board, and [shall] justify the appropriateness of their choice: [Existing actual or historical [changes in carbon stocks] [greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks], as applicable;] Greenhouse gas [emissions by sources and] removals by sinks from a land use that represents an economically attractive course of action, taking into account barriers to investment; [Greenhouse gas [emissions by sources and] removals by sinks from the most likely land use at the time the project starts;] [The average actual net removals by sinks of similar afforestation or reforestation project activities undertaken in the previous five years, in similar social, economic, environmental and technological circumstances;] [Control plots outside the project area with ecological and management conditions similar to those of the project area, chosen to represent the baseline net greenhouse gas removals by sinks.
e) Teniendo en cuenta las políticas, [planes] y circunstancias nacionales y/o sectoriales pertinentes [, incluidas las modalidades de uso de la tierra, las prácticas y las tendencias históricas; la situación económica en los sectores de la agricultura y la silvicultura; las tendencias [futuras] a nivel sectorial y nacional; los programas forestales nacionales [y su grado de ejecución]; [las tradiciones culturales], [y las condiciones socioeconómicas];